Sentences with phrase «grace than the sin»

Prayer has its great end when it lifts us to be more conscious and more sure of the gift than the need, of the grace than the sin.

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That is largely the result of a soteriology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing [mankind created in the image of God with the potential for aquiring «godlikeness» over time through cooperation with Grace].

And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as well.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

and so this New Covenant birth, on one of grace, mercy and love, and it is better than the old testament in this way, because like the rainbow was a sign that God would never flood the earth again wiping us out, so too Christ lifts the O.T. curse that was a result of sin.

Of course, there is still evil in the world, but we ought not to concentrate on sin or be obsessed by it, for sin is totally within the system of grace, and grace is stronger than sin and all - encompassing.

There is perhaps also more emphasis on what Christians might through the grace of Christ become, rather than on the legacy of past sin, whether inherited or original or actual sin.

That being said... comparing this story, as heartbreaking as it is, to a Christian that does extend love and grace to others different than ourselves even though we do not condone their sin is like apples and oranges.

But more than that, and here is the best part, and also the part that explains why I revel in pagan holidays, through the grace of Jesus, if He can redeem me from my slavery to sin, why can not He also redeem stories?

For it is premised on the conviction — fictionally adumbrated rather than overtly stated — that the God who sits in his heavens and laughs our folly to scorn is first and finally the God of grace who, in Jesus Christ, humorously accepts and thus transforms our sin into the occasion for his mercy.

A personal meeting that touched my heart and gave a direction and a new meaning to my existence»), theology («Jesus rose from the dead: not to be triumphant over those who refused him, but to certify that the love of God is stronger than death, the forgiveness of God is stronger than any sin») and his perspective on grace («God's mercy has no limits if he who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart»).

Mean Streets did more than launch Scorsese's career: The film solidified his creative vision for turning a camera to stories that center around sin and grace.

The word about sin is the penultimate rather than the ultimate word of the gospel, which witnesses to the power of God, in both judgment and mercy, to provide by grace the resources we can not provide for ourselves.

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

Every moment, I need a Savior whose sacrifice is greater than all my failures, whose grace outweighs my constant pattern of sin.

By so doing we encourage men to emphasize man's sin rather than God's grace; we prompt them to let sin usurp the place of God in human consciousness; we lead them to become more sure of sin than of the Gospel.

True, Scripture presupposes rather than enlarges on man's freedom of choice, and its explicit theme, especially in the New Testament, is the paradox that man's continuing responsible freedom is enslaved by the demonic powers of sin and death and even by the law, and that it must be freed to the love of the law by the grace of God.

(1) The early writings of Niebuhr were far more concerned with an analysis of man's sins than they were about God's grace.

If, on the plane of moral evil rather than physical or «natural» evil, one replies that with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from sinning and going to hell?»

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

Christ teaches that chastity is possible, even in difficult cases because God's grace is more powerful than sin.3 Chastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprivation.

Paul, without denying the likelihood that some sinners will die without sufficient repentance, teaches that the grace of Christ is more powerful than sin: «Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more» (Romans 5:20).

Some theologians put it more strongly than this and say that we are born with a human nature such that, without the action of God's grace, we are bound to be dominated by the motivations that lead to sinning.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

By biblical definition there has only been one perfect person on this earth, Jesus Christ, and the rest of us, including the NC minister, have sinned so we should all be thankful for God's grace and forgiveness and start looking for ways to serve our fellow human beings rather than looking for ways to hate and control them.

Since God is without sin, a sin - centered belief system will always be Law / man - centered rather than grace / God - centered.

We have already seen, when we were studying the Gospel in Paul, that there is no easier doctrine to distort than the doctrine of grace; there were those who made grace simply an excuse for easy sinning.

The man whose sin and folly and ignorance have taken him far from God may be more likely to be repelled than reconciled by crude moralism; but eventually he must come to see the need to accept God's grace and turn away from sin.

However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy — heavier than the Law of Moses.108 By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God.